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Calibration 74: Chapter Twenty
Calibration 74 is a serial novel experiment, posted raw and unedited as it is written. It is recommended you start at the beginning.
Chapter Twenty
Time has no start and time has no end. In the words of Rust Cohle it’s a flat circle, my friend.
Today is tomorrow and tomorrow today. Yesterday ended but forever it stays.
The Langoliers … Stephen said they eat and eat and eat. But all they eat is illusion. Eternally starving from empty stomachs and made-up words.
A key to a lock is nothing more than a lump of antique metal, when the lock is hidden and refuses to come out to play. Yet still, I have a key and this key fits a lock and my path has taken me to this point where I am a man with a key who only needs to find a the lock and let the truth run free. Time started long ago. So long ago it never began at all and in fact that beginning is in the future and we’ll end up back where we began.
Somewhere along that path, the key will find a lock and the two will mate and give birth to that which I seek.
Upstairs, downstairs, inside or out. This place smells of rot and rot is growth. Soon I must abandon this home and search out another. Leave the shell behind for another hermit to climb into, call his own, and drag across the sand in search of…
